Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Terry Prachett: Why Gandalf Never Married (1985) · 95 points · by iamelgringo · 39 comments
• Ask YC: Anyone actually making money selling ebooks/digital goods? · 74 points · by iamelgringo · 42 comments
• The Positive Legacy of C++ and Java · 50 points · by jwilliams · 11 comments
• Tim Berners-Lee's TED Talk: The next Web of open, linked data · 49 points · by mcxx · 24 comments
• The success of drug decriminalization in Portugal · 45 points · by kqr2 · 24 comments
• Study: Old Age Begins at 27 · 40 points · by DanielBMarkham · 72 comments
• PyPy and Psyco · 39 points · by iamelgringo · 11 comments
• Rocket Scientists Shoot Down Mosquitoes With Lasers · 38 points · by kirubakaran · 12 comments
• Ask YC: Game programming in Lisp - is it possible? · 37 points · by gameprogrdr · 40 comments
• Torrent search engine Mininova earning €1 million a year · 36 points · by peter123 · 17 comments
• How to Avoid Liquefying Your Jellyfish · 35 points · by robg · 7 comments
• Samsung: Solid state will match hard drive price · 35 points · by dmoney · 22 comments
• Usability Analysis of Apple.com: Why is it so Good? · 32 points · by rlm · 9 comments
• Double your userbase with two lines of code and a box of Modafinil · 29 points · by samueladam · 13 comments
• Optimised to fail: Card readers for online banking · 29 points · by dfox · 6 comments
• Just Don’t Compare Kosmix to Google · 28 points · by pclark · 9 comments
• Purely Functional Retrogames · 27 points · by hedgehog · 1 comment
• In Italy, A Vending Machine Makes the Pizza · 27 points · by ojbyrne · 12 comments
• A Programmer's Plea to Laptop Makers · 26 points · by kpanghmc · 38 comments
• Would You Bet $100,000,000 on Your Pet Programming Language? (2007) · 25 points · by dschoon · 7 comments
• Can you forge your future self when you never leave the present? · 25 points · by robg · 8 comments
• The power of a whiteboard · 24 points · by dhotson · 13 comments
• Clever Multiplication Technique (Video) · 20 points · by Gibbon · 3 comments
• Swiss to end secret bank accounts · 20 points · by eisokant · 25 comments
• WeFollow.com: Kevin Rose creates Twitter Directory · 17 points · by rogercosseboom · 28 comments
• Ask YC: Review my startup: See'n'Report - People Powered News · 17 points · by sharjeel · 9 comments
• Never turn down a sales lead · 16 points · by lisper · 3 comments
• AT&T Fails The SXSW iPhone Test · 16 points · by ksvs · 12 comments
• The Geometry of Musical Chords · 15 points · by Rod · 6 comments
• String and regexp performance in browsers · 15 points · by dmolnar · no comments
• Warning over narcissistic pupils · 15 points · by nickb · 7 comments
• What's your super power? · 14 points · by peter123 · 16 comments
• Various Bleeding edge Javascript techniques from creators of jQuery/Prototype/Dojo/YUI · 14 points · by sgrove · 1 comment
• Bolivia, The Saudi Arabia of Lithium · 13 points · by ojbyrne · 4 comments
• Cook's Class Contains Pi · 13 points · by bdr · no comments
• Ask HN: Twitter As A Platform? · 12 points · by alexmacgregor · 9 comments
• Ask HN: "Y Combinator for people?" · 12 points · by cool-RR · 42 comments
• Social networks 'are new e-mail' · 11 points · by ksvs · 6 comments
• Heuristics, Biases & Rationality · 11 points · by ilaksh · 3 comments
• ENEE159b: Start-Up 101 (Required text: Hackers & Painters) · 8 points · by jaydub · 1 comment
• If the economy is going to recover, Americans need to start taking risks again. · 8 points · by replicatorblog · 15 comments
• Greasemonkey script to open Hacker News links on new tabs. · 8 points · by chanux · 6 comments
• JWebPain · 8 points · by techdog · no comments
• Dare Obasanjo - Some thoughts on news feeds and activity streams replacing email · 8 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Ask HN: Good Programming Books to Teach Programmers New Languages? · 7 points · by baddox · 6 comments
• CloudBase - Map/Reduce in a relational database · 6 points · by startupfiend · no comments
• How we program · 6 points · by yaxu · no comments
• Graphic Recording of Tony Hsieh Opening Remaks @ SXSW · 6 points · by markerdmann · no comments
• Search monetization as a model for social media monetization · 5 points · by jasonlbaptiste · no comments
• Fingerprinting Blank Paper Using Commodity Scanners · 5 points · by hhm · no comments
• In Internet Age, Foreign Correspondents Have Local Audiences · 5 points · by Mrinal · no comments
• Great Grub Spots for all the SXSW-ers · 5 points · by nav · 2 comments
• Ask HN: Would you like to have a whiteboard for HN comments? · 5 points · by tokenadult · 2 comments
• Poken: Tiny RFID thingies that share all your personal data with others · 5 points · by jwb119 · 1 comment
• New organic material may speed Internet access · 5 points · by toni · no comments
• Old Growth Media And The Future Of News · 4 points · by jwilliams · no comments
• A.I.G. to Pay $100 Million in Bonuses After Huge Bailout · 4 points · by peter123 · 2 comments
• Bending Your Computer’s Keyboard to Your Needs · 4 points · by martey · 1 comment
• Plaxo’s Top Support Article: Delete My Account · 4 points · by jbryanscott · no comments
• Victus Spiritus: Stewart vs. Cramer, comedians chasing financial consultants · 4 points · by messel · no comments
• Gobby: collaborative editor supports multiple documents and multi-user chat. · 4 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• Are app stores just another type of walled garden? · 4 points · by briansmith · 2 comments
• Curses: Interactive Fiction in the browser · 4 points · by enduser · no comments
• Ask HN: Good Silicon Valley/Boston "Insider" Startup Books? · 3 points · by staunch · no comments
• Mobile App Investors Pickier A Year Later · 3 points · by Mrinal · no comments
• Yunduan, Application Virtualization Store for Windows · 3 points · by liuliu · 1 comment
• Using ATA Over Ethernet (AoE) On Debian Lenny (Initiator And Target) · 3 points · by joschi · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Please Review my Website · 3 points · by dpeq · 4 comments
• IoDrive, Changing the Way You Code · 3 points · by Steve0 · no comments
• Harnessing the Multicores with Data Parallel Haskell · 3 points · by azharcs · no comments
• From Russia With Drive · 3 points · by krschultz · no comments
• My impressions of OS X after about a month of use. · 3 points · by amichail · 11 comments
• The Secrets of the Talent Scout · 3 points · by AndrewWarner · no comments
• Experience report: Making the bSelling add-on to Salesforce & promoting it on AppExchange · 3 points · by danprager · 3 comments
• 'Objectified' -- gadget film by 'Helvetica' director -- debuts at SXSW · 2 points · by fromedome · no comments
• Social networking website for cancer awareness · 2 points · by Rajesh · no comments
• Forbes says CEOs should use Facebook & Twitter · 2 points · by AndrewWarner · no comments
• Use of Learning Theory · 2 points · by auxochrome26 · no comments
• True story of BLOBs · 2 points · by kqr2 · no comments
• Experiments in making money online · 2 points · by peter123 · no comments
• The Submarine · 2 points · by critic · no comments
• Even Faster Web Sites · 2 points · by sahaj · 1 comment
• Is turning our problems into technical problems unscientific and antiintellectual? · 2 points · by urlwolf · no comments
• Webscraping with Python and BeautifulSoup · 2 points · by preek · no comments
• Pattie Maes: Unveiling game-changing wearable tech [video] · 2 points · by swombat · 2 comments
• LinkedIN runs over Apache Tomcat/5.0.28 · 2 points · by ideamonk · 5 comments
• Creating art in real-time from your pets to put on walls in your house. · 2 points · by amichail · no comments
• New en.wikipedia.org data dump. First since October 2008. · 2 points · by edward · no comments
• Embrace the swarm (1998) · 2 points · by iamelgringo · 1 comment
• European Conference on Machine Learning · 2 points · by Kototama · no comments
• 2D games (platform games, side scrollers) using the functional language Clean · 2 points · by eru · no comments
• Tactile illusions: Seven ways to fool your sense of touch · 2 points · by dimm · no comments
• Oni: an Embedded Structured Concurrency Language for JavaScript · 2 points · by mbrubeck · no comments
• Machine Reading at Web Scale · 2 points · by njrc · 1 comment
• Meet Someone Who Still Wants to Invest in Startups: Founders Fund’s Dave McClure · 2 points · by peter123 · no comments
• What's military life like for programmers? · 2 points · by JayNeely · no comments
• Print Media: 6 Steps to Survival · 2 points · by lmoorman · no comments
• Functional testing for Web applications · 1 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• Lessons From Finland: The Way to Education Excellence · 1 points · by comatose_kid · no comments
• Network effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia · 1 points · by njrc · no comments
• So Totally Poetically Never Not Another URL Shortener · 1 points · by sallywu · no comments
• The Theory of Business Enterprise · 1 points · by kqr2 · no comments
• Cray-Cyber : Public access crays · 1 points · by kqr2 · no comments
• Positive Weekly Roundup · 1 points · by gne1963 · no comments
• Memory leaks are easy to find · 1 points · by kohlerm · no comments
• WPP boss Martin Sorrell shares his views (on the future of advertising) · 1 points · by paulsb · no comments
• Udefn.com - free sms api · 1 points · by udefn · no comments
• It's too bad Scoble's not doing this anymore but here's an inside look into Gist · 1 points · by khangtoh · no comments
• Web Accessibility as a Political Movement · 1 points · by briansmith · no comments
• From the Assembly language to Cloud Computing, and the DNA to the Mankind · 1 points · by gtzi · no comments
• Ideas changing the world right now · 1 points · by geeko · no comments
• Are You Attending MobileCamp Boston? · 1 points · by replicatorblog · no comments
• Invertebrate nervous systems · 1 points · by Allocator2008 · no comments
• What’s It Going to Take to Fix eBay? · 1 points · by ksvs · no comments
• App Stores - from exciting to boring (in just one week) · 1 points · by briansmith · no comments
• Search Monetization vs. Social Media Monetization · 1 points · by ecommercematt · no comments
• First Tech Book Published Exclusively on iPhone · 1 points · by naish · no comments
• Parchment: Z-Machine with typography in JavaScript · 1 points · by enduser · no comments
• Norvig's Sudoku solver generalized for KenKen, ported to Javascript · 1 points · by mxh · no comments
• President Barack Obama's Inaugural Address by David Bergman · 1 points · by dimm · no comments
• The feasibility of making $700,000/month on Socialmedia, Part II · 1 points · by markm · no comments
• Ask HN: Marketplaces for mashing business apps? · 1 points · by danprager · 1 comment